Dame Cleo Laine attends the Jazz FM awards at Shoreditch town hall, London, in 2018
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The singer photographed at her home in Wavendon, near Milton Keynes, in 2009
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Laine and her husband, John Dankworth, perform at the BBC Jazz awards in 2008
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On stage at the Brecon jazz festival in Wales in August 1995
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The singer on stage in 1995
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In New York in 1990
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Laine appeared on a televised concert of winners of the Lifetime Achievement award of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, on Broadway in 1987
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Performing at a gala at the Lincoln Center in New York in 1987
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Laine’s 55th birthday party at Jacqueline’s Restaurant, New York City, in 1982
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The singer in 1979
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On the variety programme Bonkers, with a trio of backing singers in drag, in 1979
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Performing with the Australian classical guitarist John Williams at BBC Television Centre in 1977
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Playing cricket with Dusty Springfield in a celebrity match at the Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles, 1976
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On stage in London in 1976
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The star with an orchestra in 1974
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Performing in 1974
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On stage in 1974
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Cleo Laine in 1985
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The star photographed in 1972
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Laine at home in the UK in 1971
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Dankworth and Laine in June 1970
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Laine in 1968
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Laine and Dankworth performing together on the BBC in 1963
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Laine, seated centre, in the musical Cindy-Ella, or I Gotta Shoe (with fellow cast members George Browne, Elizabeth Welch and Cy Grant) at the Garrick theatre in the West End in 1962
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Performing at the Beaulieu jazz festival in 1959
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